Lot 35
35
A BLUE AND WHITE OCTAGONAL WATER DROPPER

Details
A BLUE AND WHITE OCTAGONAL WATER DROPPER
CHOSON DYNASTY (LATE 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY)

The eight-sided vessel resting on a wide ring foot and moulded on one side with a spout in the form of an upside-down frog with open mouth and moulded in the center of the very slightly domed top with a larger frog, facing the other with an open mouth, painted on each of the sides with trigrams and on the top with grapes and spiralling tendrils and a large leaf beneath the frog, all within a narrow octagonal line, a further ring encircling the foot--5 1/4 in. (13.2 cm.) diameter, 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm.) high, small chip on end of spout

Lot Essay

For another octagonal water dropper moulded with two frogs and painted with trigrams on each of the sides see Richo suiteki ten [Exhibition of Choson Dynasty water dropppers], (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1988), no. 55; Catalogue of Ewha Womans University Museum (Seoul: Ewha Woman's University Museum, 1987), no. 882, p. 401; Special Exhibition of Inkstone and Water Dropper, Catalogue III (Seoul: Ewha Woman's University Museum, 1974, pl. 1; a similar waterdropper molded with frogs, was sold in these rooms April 22nd, 1992, lot 38.